Star Destroyer Technical Commentaries
Star Destroyer Classes
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Raider-class corvette The Raider-class corvette was used by the Galactic Empire to support the TIE fighters used to engage the fleet of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, and was manufactured by Kuat Drive Yards in 6 BBY. The 150 meter-long corvette was armed with 6 Dual heavy laser cannons, 1 Ion cannon, and 2 Concussion missile launchers. The corvette also had some space for up to 2 starfighters. |
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Vigil-class corvette The Vigil-class corvette patrolled trade routes, escorted cruisers as picket ships, served as battlegroup leaders for small backwater fleets, operated as lone cruisers hunting pirates and smugglers. At 255m long it was armed with 3 Twin heavy turbolaser turrets, 3 Twin light turbolaser turrets, Multiple laser cannon turrets, and a Medium Tractor beam emitter. Fractalsponge |
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Kontos-class Star Frigate 546.2m Fractalsponge |
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Velox-class Star Frigate Escort, pursuit ship, sensor picket. Basically general (very) fast fleet utility ship. Fractalsponge |
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Fulgor-class pursuit frigate 618m Fractalsponge |
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Imperial II-class frigate The Imperial II-class frigate was a smaller, less powerful type of Star Destroyer. These vessels had two extensive hangars on both sides of the hull, which accommodated a number of TIE/LN starfighters and support ships and could be used to carry suspicious vessels while they underwent scrutiny. At 400m long, it was armed with: 4 Turbolaser batteries, 4 Ion cannon batteries, and 4 Point-defense laser batteries. Its flight complement included: 36 TIE starfighters, 36 TIE/IN interceptors, and 2 Lambda-class T-4a shuttles. |
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Proclamator-class Star Frigate Length: 880m Armament: 6×3 heavy turbolaser (40 teraton) 6×4 medium turbolaser (200 gigaton) 21 point defence turrets (heavy laser + light turbolaser combo) Complement: 4 squadrons (48 fighters total) Fractalsponge |
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Vindicator-class heavy cruiser The Vindicator-class heavy cruiser was the standard 600-meter-long heavy cruiser design of the Imperial Navy. The ship's armament consisted of 25 light turbolasers, 20 light quad turbolasers, 10 point-defense laser cannons, 20 light point-defense ion cannons, and 6 tractor beam projectors organized into 5 light turbolaser batteries, 5 light quad turbolaser batteries, 4 laser batteries, 4 ion cannon batteries and one capital - grade tractor beam battery. The Vindicator was equipped with a Class 2 hyperdrive. It carried 400 troops and a crew of 2,551. Most Vindicators were specifically configured so that they could carry a full TIE starfighter wing and operate independently without the need for support ships. Other configurations could carry only two squadrons of starfighters. |
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Enforcer-class picket cruiser The Enforcer-class heavy cruiser was built on the same 600-meter frame as the Immobilizer 418 cruiser and Vindicator-class heavy cruiser. Armed with 6 Ion cannon batteries, 10 quad laser cannons, 4 tractor beam projectors, and 10 turbolaser batteries. |
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Immobilizer 418 cruiser The Immobilizer 418 also known as the Interdictor-class heavy cruiser, Interdictor-class medium frigate, Interdictor Dreadnaught, or simply the Interdictor, and sometimes colloqually as the Drag Ship, was a 600-meter-long cruiser built on the standard Vindicator-class heavy cruiser hull (later used for the Enforcer-class picket cruiser). Equipped with gravity well projectors designed to pull ships from hyperspace and/or prevent them making the jump to lightspeed, the Interdictor became a valuable addition to the Imperial Navy. As well as gravity wells, the Sienar design was also equipped with 20 quad laser cannons to combat starfighters. |
Light Destroyers |
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Gladiator-class Star Destroyer The Gladiator-class, was 600m long and armed with 12 Light dual turbolaser turrets, 10 Point-defense medium laser cannon turrets, 10 concussion missile launchers, and 8 Medium tractor beam projectors. Gladiator-class had a flight complement of 26 TIE fighters and numerous shuttles, landing craft and utility vehicles, as well as 1.200 stormtroopers. The class was used as a long-range patrol vessel, carrying enough troops, fighters and firepower to subjugate local pirate groups and planetary defense forces in the fringe regions of the galaxy. |
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Victory I-class Star Destroyer The Victory I-class, was a warship designed for planetary defense, planetary assault, ground troop support, and ship-to-ship combat. The Victory I-class were 900 meters long, required 4,798 crew members and 402 gunners for optimal operation and could transport up to 2,040 troops, 8,100 metric tons of cargo, several ground vehicles like the AT-AT, and two squadrons of starfighters. They were equipped with 10 quad turbolaser batteries, 40 double turbolaser batteries, 80 concussion missiles tubes, and 10 tractor beam projectors. |
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Victory II-class Star Destroyer The Victory II-class, was designed for deep space combat. Besides its faster sublight speed, the most notable change was the addition of ion cannons, more turbolasers, tractor beam projectors, and the removal of the banks of concussion missile tubes. The Victory I-class required 5,881 crew members and 226 gunners carry up to 1,600 troops. And carried a complement of 24 TIE fighters, 5 Lambda-class shuttles, 10 AT-AT walkers, 15 AT-ST walkers, 10 Juggernauts, and various support vehicles They were equipped with 20 turbolaser batteries, 20 double heavy turbolaser batteries, 10 double heavy ion cannons, and 10 tractor beam projectors. |
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Procursator-class Star Destroyer The Procursator-class Star Destroyer was similar in appearance to the Imperial-class Star Destroyer. It was slightly shorter, at 1200 meters in length. The class was armed with three prominent axial gun batteries, and eleven other smaller guns across the ship. Fractalsponge |
Line Destroyers |
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Imperator I-class Star Destroyer The Imperial-class Star Destroyers, along with Imperial stormtroopers, represented the might of the Imperial Military throughout the galaxy during the reign of the Galactic Empire. 1,600 meters. |
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Imperator II-class Star Destroyer The Imperial II-class Star Destroyer was fielded years after the first model, with some cosmetic differences. It became the norm for the Imperial Navy, with some Imperial Is retrofitted to be more similar to the second generation. Fractalsponge |
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Tector-class Star Destroyer The Tector-class Star Destroyer, was based on the design of the Imperator-class, with the large ventral hangars absent. Instead of ventral hangar bays, the design opted for an increase in armor that covered the areas normally used as main hangar openings, as well as the reactor core. This made the design more efficient in ship-to-ship combat, as it had less access to internal weak-spots. However, it limited its usefulness in other roles. Being without hangars, it required dedicated carriers to provide any starfighter support. |
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Interdictor-class Star Destroyer The Interdictor-class Star Destroyer was a variant of the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer equipped with gravity well projectors. This vessel has similar dimensions and proportions to a standard mile-long star destroyer, and the present renderings hint that the basic hull and infrastructure may be the same module as that of Imperator-class star destroyers. Yet it also mounts four gravity well generators for suppressing hyperdrive travel within its vicinity. These projectors are a major structural feature, suggesting that this design is Kuat Drive Yard's answer to the early development of the diminutive Immobiliser-418 interdictor built by competitor Sienar Fleet Systems. Dominator's role appears more versatile than the specialised Immobiliser-418, which was not intended to engage in heavy combat. Instead, the Dominator seems to combine the offensive role of a well-armed and durable destroyer with a hyperspace interdiction capability. This interdictor destroyer can stage its own ambushes and prevent its prey's escape. Fractalsponge |
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Anonymous Star Destroyer #4 Terminator opposite of the Tector as is have a bigger hanger bay then the Imperator while the Tector don’t have one This medium-sized star destroyer appears to be a KDY design. The dorsal terraces appear lower and less extensive than on comparable destroyer classes, and the rear textural details inidicate that the design is contemporaneous with the ISD-I sublclass of the Imperator series. (Especially vertical features on the sides of the terraces.) This destroyer has three conical sublight thrusters similar to the primary thrusters of Imperator-class, but two of them are slightly smaller than the central nozzle. Total thruster area is 13.5% of the area of the stern cavity, compared with a corresponding figure of 39.2% for Imperator-class. This implies that the ships engine efficiencies or thrust capabilities differ. This anonymous destroyer-sized vessel probably has poorer acceleration than the Imperator. There is no significant ventral bulb, so the power systems are entirely concealed and protected with the body of the ship. This may mean that this class is low-powered for its size, uses more efficient and compact technologies, or perhaps makes some other unknown internal structural sacrifice in return for the advantage of better protecting its power and propulsion systems. It seems most likely to be a slower destroyer which is considerably dedicated to carrier and mothership functions. The ventral docking bays are proportionately very large. At least two large bays are visible, which are of similar size but are well separated. The foremost of these may be accompanied by a secondary bay in an arrangement similar to the two bays of an Imperator destroyer. No brim trench notches are distinguishable in the presently available image. Notches can be definitively ruled out in the rear four-fifths of the starship, on the starboard side. SWTC |
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Secutor-class Star Destroyer The Secutor-class was 2.2 kilometers long and had two ventral hangar apertures, serving primarily as a carrier. This Star Destroyer class was very light in terms of weapons output, merely possessing 15 heavy turbolaser batteries, 15 light turbolasers, 15 battleship-class ion cannon batteries, 16 medium ion cannons, and 12 tractor beam projectors. Owing to its primarily being a carrier, the Secutor-class carried 144 TIE Series starfighters, as well as various other small craft, various walkers and over 14,000 troops: enough military forces to subjugate a planet. Fractalsponge |
Battlecruisers |
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Allegiance-class Battlecruiser The Allegiance-class battlecruiser was similar in appearance to both the Victory, Procursator and Imperial-class Star Destroyers, but was larger than all of them, reaching a length of 2,200 meters. Unlike the Victory and the Imperial, the Allegiance-class lacked ventral hangar bays. Like fellow hangarless models such as the Procursator and Tector-class, the model could seemingly only rely on its own exterior ordnance, as the Allegiance appeared to be unable to carry any starfighters or ground vehicles internally. Fractalsponge |
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Compellor-class Star Cruiser 4.3 km Fractalsponge |
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Impellor-class Fleet Carrier Fractalsponge |
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Procurator-class Star Battlecruiser The Procurator-class Star Battlecruiser, also known as the Procurator-class battle cruiser or the Procurator-class warship, was a 2,500-meter-long warship first produced by Kuat Drive Yards two centuries before the fall of the Galactic Republic. The first starship to qualify as a battlecruiser under the Anaxes War College System, the Procurator-class was heavily-armed and featured a ventral protrusion to accommodate its powerful reactor. The Procurator-class was refined over the years before it was succeeded by the four thousand-meter-long Praetor-class Star Battlecruiser and the eight thousand meter-long Mandator-class Star Dreadnaught. Procurator-class Star Battlecruisers were primarily used to defend the Kuat sector, though they also served to attract wealthy clients to KDY. 2,500 meters. Fractalsponge |
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Praetor-class Star Battlecruiser The Praetor-class battlecruiser , also known as the Praetor-class Star Battlecruiser or the Praetor-class battle cruiser, was a warship produced by Kuat Drive Yards in the final years of the Galactic Republic. A four-thousand-meter battlecruiser, the Praetor-class was the successor of the Procurator-class Star Battlecruiser, though both were restricted in terms of hyperdrive capability and armament due to the Ruusan Reformation. 4,000 meters. Fractalsponge |
Dreadnoughts |
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Bellator-class Dreadnought The Bellator-class dreadnought was a model of dreadnought based on the earlier Mandator- and Mandator II-class dreadnoughts. It was a scaled-down version, 7,200 meters (800 meters shorter than its predecessors). The dorsal surface mounted a large array of gun batteries. The batteries were arranged both on the port and starboard sides of the hull, as well as on the ridge in front of the command tower. Fractalsponge |
| Mandator-class Dreadnought The Mandator-class dreadnought of the Mandator line, 8,000 meters. A humpbacked warship like its predecessor, the Procurator-class Star Battlecruiser, it was the first starship to receive the designation of Dreadnaught by the Anaxes War College. Regulations from the Ruusan Reformation limited the Mandator-class's speed and armament, though they were still formidable warships. The Mandator-class's ventral protrusion was the result of its large reactor. By the time of the Clone Wars, seven Star Dreadnaughts were in service—three in the Kuat sector, and one in each of the Azure, Ixtlar, Alsaka, and Humbarine sectors. Its successor, the Mandator II-class Star Dreadnaught, featured heavier armor, better weaponry, and better hyperdrive capabilities. The Mandator II-class was unveiled during the Clone Wars, which also saw three of the original Mandator-class ships refitted for combat. |
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Assertor-class Dreadnought The Assertor-class Star Dreadnought was 15 kilometers long and had a hull-shape similar to the Executor-class Star Dreadnought, being primarily shaped like an arrowhead. It was considered the second largest of the standard Star Dreadnought line (with only the Executor-class being larger), as well as the largest in the Imperial Navy in a family that included the Mandator- and Bellator-class ships. Fractalsponge |
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Executor-class Star Dreadnought The Executor-class Star Dreadnought was a 19Km, heavy warship class in the Star Dreadnought league, often used as command ships and flagships in the Imperial Navy. At their prime, they were among the largest vessels in the galaxy, and were almost invincible in combat, although they were costly to operate. |
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Bellator-class Dreadnought Fractalsponge |